Lists made from an indent and a tab stop

The giveaway of a document a program assembled is a list whose second line starts under the bullet instead of under the words. It is a small thing, and every word processor in the world gets it right.

Here the marker sits in the room the item opens for it, and every line after the first starts under the words instead of under the marker — however long the item runs, and whatever it is translated into. A list inside a list is the same arrangement again, one step further in, so the marker can be anything at all — a dot, a number, a letter, a dash, a symbol of your own — and the lines still hang where they should.

What this example shows

• Bulleted, numbered and nested lists on one page.
• Later lines starting under the text, never under the marker.
• A list inside a list, made the same way one step further in.

The source code, complete

Nothing is left out and nothing is simplified: this is the program exactly as it runs, for the developer who uses this library. The third is the description itself: a plain list of what the page has to say, which is what the service is sent.

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The document itself

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Optimised, this document weighs 13.1 kB — at least 85 % lighter than most PDF generators would write it

The document is lighter than it was, and every page still looks exactly the same. See this document's row in the table of every example.